Raising the standard of living, quality of life, freeing potential, and generating peace with education, entertainment, and inspiration … because every child, every person, should know, by their own experience, they are valued … respected. Connecting the Dots … with The RESPECT PRINCIPLE. www.therespectprinciple.com

NEWSFLASH! EBooks now available at https://www.smashwords.com and other favorite EBook retailers. New release DARK HORSES …The Short Story. Plus, Business Manager search is on!

As one of the 100 recipients of the Limited First Edition of “Connecting the Dots … with The Respect Principle” mailed out late July 2015, I am grateful he was one of the few well-known and influential people, whose office has responded so far with best wishes. The other was W. Brett Wilson, The Prairie Merchant and former “Dragons’ Den” Dragon.

Thank you both for taking the time, via your staff, to acknowledge the gift of the book … that is my work to help make the world a better place … whatever religion, social and economic status.

Raising the standard of living, quality of life, freeing potential, and generating peace with education, entertainment, and inspiration … because every child, every person, should know, by their own experience, they are valued … respected. Connecting the Dots … with The RESPECT PRINCIPLE. www.therespectprinciple.com

NEWSFLASH! EBooks now available at https://www.smashwords.com and other favorite EBook retailers. Plus Business Manager search is on!

Albert Einstein, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity.”

This quote is the introduction from the core book, Connecting the Dots … with The Respect Principle, now available in EBook form on https://www.smashwords.com with a 50% savings until September 30th, 2015. Promo code is JK24D.

Connecting the Dots … with The Respect Principle … bridging the gap between science and spirituality.

Raising the standard of living, quality of life, freeing potential, and generating peace with education, entertainment, and inspiration … because every child, every person, should know, by their own experience, they are valued … respected. Connecting the Dots … with The RESPECT PRINCIPLE.

Word came out yesterday afternoon that Oyster is “sunsetting” their business, a polite euphemism for “closing.”

I received an update from our friends at Oyster this morning. Here’s the scoop: Oyster has been acquired by Google. The Oyster service will continue to operate as normal until sometime in early 2016, at which point it will shut down and cease to exist.

Between now and the ultimate closing (exact date TBD), Smashwords will continue to deliver new books and updates to Oyster, and Oyster will continue their great work generating readers and income for our authors.

What does this mean for Smashwords authors and publishers? Obviously, it’s a sad day when a promising sales outlet such as Oyster exits the market. Although Oyster and Scribd are among our smaller retailers, they were our fastest growing sales outlets in 2014. In recent months, their combined sales have been approximately equivalent to what we sell in the Smashwords store each month. So while we’re sad to see Oyster’s sales go away, in the short run it’s a bump in the road because the lion’s share of sales are coming from larger retailers.

When companies grow so large and focus solely on profit and power, taking out the opposition, in modern times with buyouts and takeovers, in historical times with oppression and violence, the truth is the truth … profit without social awareness and responsibility continues to reflect the dominant “Disrespectful Philosophy” that some are more valuable than others, and, as a result, justify to themselves that just because they can take, they should. In contrast, higher “Respect Level” thinking recognizes the value of diversity. Diversity in work environments … because not everyone likes or does well in monster organizations. And as monster organizations continue to downsize because of information technology, small businesses counter both the low “Respect Level” challenges by providing alternative work environments, especially for the MBTI “I” personality types who thrive in smaller environments, plus help offset the employment challenges created by big organization downsizing. And because consumers are so focused primarily on their getting the best deal the monster organizations offer, they are significant contributors to the downfall of not just small businesses, but also to the impact of their short-term, individual practices have on their society and global culture. Based on “Connecting the Dots … with the Respect Principle” global initiative and core book by “The Respect Specialist,” Kaitlin A. Trepanier

Raising the standard of living, quality of life, freeing potential, and generating peace with education, entertainment, and inspiration … because every child, every person, should know, by their own experience, they are valued … respected. Connecting the Dots … with The RESPECT PRINCIPLE. www.therespectprinciple.com

Smashwords’ “Affiliate Program” provides you with the opportunity to receive 11% of my and other people’s books you sell!!

Here’s how Smashwords sums it up …

What’s an Affiliate Program? In a nutshell, an affiliate program motivates third party marketers (fellow authors, bloggers, online communities, specialty online bookstores, professional affiliate marketers) to promote your Smashwords books. If they drive a buyer to your book, they earn an 11% fee. If you want to read a more detailed explanation of how *other* affiliate programs work, read this overview at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing

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Raising the standard of living, quality of life, freeing potential, and generating peace with education, entertainment, and inspiration … because every child, every person, should know, by their own experience, they are valued … respected. Connecting the Dots … with The RESPECT PRINCIPLE. www.therespectprinciple.com

Dark horses are not born. They are created. Determined to break free of the pens people want to cage her with, Ariel, as a wild horse does in captivity, does more harm to herself trying to break free. But when love, the unconditional kind, arrives in her life, she does recognize something new, but her patterns are deeply entrenched and she pushes the one thing away that could free her.

Raising the standard of living, quality of life, freeing potential, and generating peace with education, entertainment, and inspiration … because every child, every person, should know, by their own experience, they are valued … respected . Connecting the Dots … with The RESPECT PRINCIPLE. http://www.therespectprinciple.com

by Kaitlin A. Trepanier Humanitarian. Social Entrepreneur. Creative.

NEWSFLASH! New Release, DARK HORSES … A Cautionary Tale, joins the Little Jack series on https://www.smashwords.com and on your other favorite EBook retailers … Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, etc. Also available for libraries!

FUTURE RELEASE NEWSFLASH! Next arrival on smashwords.com, the EBook version of Connecting the Dots … with The RESPECT PRINCIPLE, its complementary school and play, Charles’ Choice, and RESPECT … The Way Back into Love.